Tenor or contratenor for 'Qua capit ethere' on f. 1'; tenor or contratenor for 'Salve festa dies' on f. 2, copied by a different hand. . Copied in England. Later owned by the antiquarian Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872); purchased by Bodleian Library in 1908 at a Sotheby's sale of items from Phillipps' library.
GB-Ob MS. Lat. misc. f. 18
Bodleian Library, Oxford, England
flyleaves: Late 15th early 16th century
| Archive | Bodleian Library, Oxford, England (GB-Ob) |
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| Shelfmark | MS. Lat. misc. f. 18 |
| Surface | Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Measurements | 127 x 110 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Physical Description
Some music obliterated by later trimming.
Binding
Original(?) covers of brown leather on cardboard, with tooled oval design in center; new spine. Front and back flyleaves (= new ff. 1-2 and 133-135) are remnants of a hymnary.
Notation
not indicated
Date
Late 15th or early 16th century (HughM).
Foliation
1v-2v
Foliation
New pencil foliation, 1-135 ('111' applied to two consecutive folios).
Decoration
No initials or decoration.
Surface
parchment
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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Latin chronicle of England, with polyphony:
1 processional hymn, 1 motet = 2 (fragmentary)
Anonymous
136 parchment folios, 127 x 110. New pencil foliation, 1-135 ("111" applied to two consecutive folios). Original(?) covers of brown leather on cardboard, with tooled oval design in center; new spine. Front and back flyleaves (= new ff. 1-2 and 133-135) are remnants of a hymnary. Tenor or contratenor for "Qua capit ethere" on f. 1'; tenor or contratenor for "Salve festa dies" on f. 2, copied by a different hand. Some music obliterated by later trimming. No initials or decoration.
Late 15th or early 16th century (HughM). Copied in England. Later owned by the antiquarian Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872); purchased by Bodleian Library in 1908 at a Sotheby's sale of items from Phillipps' library.
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‡ denotes primary source study
Curtis, Gareth R K, and Andrew B Wathey. 1994. Fifteenth-Century English Liturgical Music: A List of the Surviving Repertory. Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, 27: 1-69.
Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1-5. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag.
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1951. Medieval Polyphony in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Pages: 39. Notes: physical description; contents list; incipitsst of contents (partial).
Madan, Falconer (editor). 1895-1953. A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Oxford. Pages: VI,300. Notes: physical description.
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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Physical Description Note; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description